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Friday, August 13, 2010

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.

One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.

One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

In Spanish-speaking countries, instead of Friday, Tuesday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck